Research Presentations

"Effects of Pre-Existing Knowledge on Current Memory Performance."  Nancy R. Gee discussant and chair.  Speakers:  Gary J. Gargano, Suparna Rajaram, Kandi Jo Turley-Ames, and David Bennett.  Presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, in April 1999.

Gargano, G. J.  (2001, November).  Using a Web-Based Program for Human Subject Recruitment.Presented at the Haub School of Business Teaching Forum.  Saint Joseph's University.

Gargano, G. J.  (2000, April).  Incriminating pre-trial publicity and inadmissible testimony do bias mock juror verdicts.  Presented at the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Colloquium, Saint Joseph's University. 

Gargano, G. J.  (1999, April).  Does pre-trial publicity and inadmissible testimony influence judicial decisions of guilt vs. innocence?  Presented at the Haub School of Business Research Forum, Saint Joseph's University.  Gargano, G. J.  (1996, October).  Retrieval induced forgetting is due to a retrieval, not an inhibitory, mechanism.  Presented to the Saint Joseph's Chapter of Sigma Xi Honor Society.

Peer Reviewed Presentations

Holton, M., Raffa, D., & Gargano, G. J.  (2001, June).  Crime severity does not influence the effects of inadmissible evidence on verdicts.  Poster presented at the American Psychological Society Conference, Toronto, Canada. 

Holton, M., Gargano, G. J., & Raffa, D.  (2001, April).  Pre-trial publicity, but not crime severity, biases mock juror verdicts.  Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Washington, D. C. 

Holton, M., Raffa, D., & Gargano, G. J.  (2001, June).  Crime severity does not influence the effects of inadmissible evidence on verdicts.  Poster presented at the American Psychological Society Conference, Toronto, Canada. 

Holton, M., Gargano, G. J., & Raffa, D.  (2001, April).  Pre-trial publicity, but not crime severity, biases mock juror verdicts.  Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Washington, D. C. 

Gargano, G. J., & Feeko, K.  (2000, November). Part-set cuing due to strong, but not weak list item cues. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Gargano, G. J., & McKeever, C. I.  (1999, November).  Incriminating pretrial publicity and inadmissible testimony influences juror verdicts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Gargano, G. J., & Chandler, C. C.  (1998, November).  Retrieval-induced interference despite instructions to forget the prior test. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic         Society, Dallas, TX. 

Gargano, G. J., & Chandler, C. C.  (1996, November).  Do inhibitory mechanisms cause retrieval-induced interference - or is it a retrieval problem? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Gargano, G. J., & Chandler, C. C.  (1995, November).  Evidence against inhibitory  mechanisms in episodic memory tasks.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Chandler, C. C., Gargano, G. J., & Holt, B. C.  (1995, July).  Memory traces are not altered by similar events. Poster presented at the annual meeting of  the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Vancouver, B.C.

Chandler, C. C., & Gargano, G. J.  (1994, November).  Cue-dependent forgetting causes interference in recall. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Chandler, C. C., & Gargano, G. J.  (1993, June).  Retroactive interference is not necessarily caused by retrieving multiple traces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

Gargano, G. J., Corona, R., Basden, B. H., & Basden, D. R.  (1990, April).  The effect of different item presentation methods and indirect memory tasks on directed forgetting. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Gee, N. R., Gargano, G. J., Basden, B. H., & Basden, D. R.  (1990, April).  The effect of number of cues and type of experimental design on word production. Poster presented at the annual   meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Gee, N. R., Gargano, G. J., & Dyck, J. L.  (1990, April).  The effect of cue word popularity on part-set cuing  for a non-memory task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western   Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Coe, W. C., Basden, B. H., Basden, D. R., Fikes, T., Gargano, G., Webb, M.   (1988, April).  Comparing directed forgetting and posthypnotic amnesia. Poster presented at the 24th   International Congress of  Psychology, Sydney, Australia.       

Fikes, T. G., Gargano, G., Webb, M., Coe, W. C., Basden, B.  (1987, April).  Effects of directed forgetting and posthypnotic amnesia on memory retrieval and storage. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Long Beach, CA.

Student Sponsored Research

Boice, M., & Gargano, G. J. (2001). Part-list cuing due to strong, not weak, list items. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 6(3), 118-122. abstract